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Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle

( Edition intégrale ) Tome 6/9 - illustré - annoté

by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2018

GÂBLE, Terme de charpenterie appliqué à la maçonnerie. Il y a encore une association de charpentiers à laquelle on donne le nom de Gavauds, et, dans le Berri, un homme qui a les jambes arquées en dehors s’appelle un gavaud. Le gâble est originairement la réunion, à leur sommet, de deux...
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Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle

( Edition intégrale ) Tome 3/9 - illustré - annoté

by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2018

CHARNIER, Signifie proprement un vaisseau où l’on conserve des viandes salées. On donna aussi ce nom aux cimetières, aux enclos réservés à la sépulture. On désignait encore, à la fin du siècle dernier, le cimetière des Innocents à Paris sous le nom de Charnier des Innocents (voy. CIMETIÈRE). CHARPENTE,...
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Science in an Enchanted World

Philosophy and Witchcraft in the Work of Joseph Glanvill

by Julie Davies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

Best known as the Saducismus triumphatus (1681), Joseph Glanvill’s book on witchcraft is among the most frequently published from the seventeenth century, and its arguments for the reality of diabolic witchcraft elicited passionate responses from critics and supporters alike. Davies untangles the...
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by Iginio Ambanelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 4, 2014

Niccolò Machiavelli (NM) è un’icona nazionale, viene pubblicamente lodato ma l’immagine che ne ha il grande pubblico è riduttiva, come di un grande mangiapreti, ideatore e consigliere di una politica luciferina e inventore del riprovevole machiavellismo. Ma non è così, questo non è il vero...
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by Federico G. Martini
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 27, 2012

Ludovico il Moro, al pari di altri principi del Rinascimento, amava circondarsi di artisti provenienti da vari Paesi che sapessero dargli quell'immortalità cui aspirava. Per tale motivo invita presso la sua corte Pieter da Utrecht, un maestro fiammingo celebrato per il suo talento e l'uso sapiente...
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by Christina H. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially...
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by Manuel Fernández Álvarez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2014

«¿Qué es, pues, lo que destacaríamos en este juicio final sobre Carlos V? Su comportamiento caballeresco, su respeto a la palabra dada, su sacrificio personal en pro de sus pueblos...» Manuel Fernández Álvarez (1921-2010) sigue siendo la gran autoridad en la España del siglo...
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Passing into the present

Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing

by Sinead Moynihan
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of...
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Brave community

The Digger Movement in the English Revolution

by John Gurney
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

This is the first full-length, modern study of the Diggers or ‘True Levellers’, who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. It was in April 1649 that the Diggers, inspired by the teachings and writings of Gerrard Winstanley, began...
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by Didier LE FUR
Language: French
Release Date: January 2, 2015

A l'occasion des 500 ans de la bataille de Marignan (1515), la publication en Tempus du livre de référence sur la plus grande victoire de François Ier. Sorte de lieu commun de notre conscience collective, " Marignan, 1515 " est dans toutes les mémoires. Cet événement des guerres...
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L'assassinat d'Henri III

15mn d'Histoire

by Jean-Christophe BUISSON
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2014

15mn d'Histoire : une nouvelle collection de textes courts pour apprendre et comprendre l'Histoire en 15 minutes. En ce début d'année 1589, la popularité d'Henri III auprès de ses sujets est au plus bas. En ordonnant l'assassinat des deux princes de Lorraine, le duc de Guise et son frère, dont...
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by Jean-François SOLNON
Language: French
Release Date: December 8, 2016

Un livre qui balaie la légende de la reine vêtue de noir, concoctant dans l'ombre ses poisons et une politique machiavélique. Dans notre mémoire collective, Catherine de Médicis a très mauvaise réputation. La ruse et le machiavélisme auraient inspiré sa politique. Le poison et l'assassinat...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016

The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety. In this study, annotated transcriptions are given of all of the private letters in English and all the English verse. Incipit transcriptions and identification are provided...
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by Moisés González García, Antonio Sánchez Fernández, Moisés González García
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 24, 2017

El Renacimiento, que cronológicamente abarca desde mediados del siglo XIV hasta principios del siglo XVII, representa todo un programa de renovación cultural y política, que pretende instaurar una nueva época en la historia de la civilización europea y dar al mundo un nuevo rostro. Pero esta...
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